WICHITA FALLS, Tex. -- Washburn wrapped up the Midwestern State Invitational with a pair of singles flight winners in the Lone Star State. Next the Ichabods will turn to the ITA Regional Tournament in Edmond, Okla. beginning Friday, Oct. 23.
In doubles competition Kilian Martinez and Yuto Miyagwa lost a tight quarterfinal round dual in the blue flight, 7-6(6) in a tiebreaker. Nicolas Hurtado-Novoa and Benjamin Fock were forced to drop out of the flight due to injury.
Playing in the red flight, Gael Mourmant and Keita Kuroda worked a 6-4 opening round victory before being knocked out by the same score in the semifinals. Petr Leipner and Graham Faris went into a tiebreaker in their dual, coming up just short falling 7-6(5) in the quarterfinals.
On the singles side Kilian Martinez completed his run through the blue flight winning 6-1 and 6-2 sets in the championship match. Keita Kuroda and Nicolas Hurtado-Novoa each settle for a share of the red flight title after the teammate's championship match was abandoned.
Doubles competition:
Blue Flight:
QF – Velter, Victor/Gavrilonoks, Nikita (SMU) def. Martinez, Kilian/Miyagawa, Yuto (WU) 7-6(6)
QF – Sandhez, Bruno/Vacula, Filip (MSU) def. Fock, Benjamin/Hurtado-Novoa, Nicolas (WU) dq
Red Flight:
QF – Mourmant, Gael/Kuroda, Keita (WU) def. Pages, Martin Salvador/Latimer, Kenneth (MSU) 6-4
QF – van der Laan, Rynard/Franklin, Jack (MSU) def. Faris, Graham/Leipner, Petr (WU) 7-6(5)
SF – van der Laan, Rynard/Franklin, Jack (MSU) def. Mourmant, Gael/Kuroda, Keita (WU) 6-4
Consolation matches
Loeches Llamas, Cesar/Portillo, Jose (MSU) def. Martinez, Kilian/Miyagawa, Yuto (WU) 6-2
Pages, Martin Salvador/Latimer, Kenneth (MSU) def. Faris, Graham/Leipner, Petr (WU) 6-2
Mourmant, Gael/Kuroda, Keita (WU) def. Goessel, Lennard/Yakubu Lea, Abubakari (CU) 6-3
Singles competition:
Blue Flight:
F – Martinez, Kilian (WU) def. Sanchez, Bruno (MSU) 6-1, 6-2
Green Flight:
SF – Gavrilonocks, Nikita (SMU) def. Fock, Benjamin (WU) 3-6, 3-1 WD (inj.)
Consolation matches and extra matches:
Vacula, Filip (MSU) def. Miyagawa, Yuto (WU) 6-4, 7-5
Leipner, Petr (WU) def. Smalto, Florian (SMU) 6-4, 6-3
Leipner, Petr (WU) def. Leguizamon Chaves, Tomas (MSU) 7-6(4), 6-3
